The chairman of a congressional subcommittee examining NASA’s aeronautics spending plan is asking whether deliberate national strategy rather than budget pressure should guide the federal government’s declining investment in civil aviation research and development.
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Time is running out on a U.S.-Russian agreement that until now has guaranteed American astronauts a seat aboard the Soyuz spacecraft that ferry crews to and from the international space station twice a year and guarantee their safe return in an emergency.
Bigelow Plans To Launch Genesis Pathfinder in Early 2006
Space entrepreneur Robert Bigelow has been making quiet inroads into the development of Earth orbiting inflatable modules. The privately built and financed habitable structures would be available for research, manufacturing and other uses, including lodging for future space tourists.
Then and Now in Aerospace
The title of a motion picture a few years back, ” Honey, I Shrunk the Kids,” is an apt metaphor for what has taken place in the aerospace industry over the last three decades. On several levels, it spells trouble for future grand achievements in space exploration on the scale of the Apollo Moon program.
More Spacewalk Rehearsals Ahead for Next Shuttle Crew
In preparation for the first post-Columbia shuttle mission, two astronauts spent more than five hours in a neutral buoyancy tank here Feb. 24, practicing for one of three spacewalks they will conduct to repair the international space station and test new techniques for fixing heat resistant shuttle tiles.
Falcon 1 Launch Delayed Again; More Tests Planned
The first flight of Space Exploration Technologies Corp.’s (SpaceX) Falcon 1 launch vehicle will be delayed until at least May as the company carries out additional testing on the new rocket.
‘Angel Investor’ Walt Anderson Accused of Tax Evasion
Entrepreneur Walt Anderson, the financier behind many long-shot commercial space ventures, was denied bail March 3 during a bond hearing and was ordered to remain in jail at least until his next court appearance on the largest federal tax evasion case in U.S. history.
How To Build a Lunar Base With Evolution to Mars
Robert Zubrin, an astronautical engineer, is president of the Mars Society, and the author of the books The Case for Mars, Entering Space, and Mars on Earth